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It must be my lucky day today. It’s just unfortunate that this is not for real.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MR CLARK MORGAN <info@clarkmorgan.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Subject: Greetings: Your ATM CARD Payment
To:

Greetings:

This is to officially inform you that ATM card worth  Five hundred Thousand dollars ($500,000.00 USD) has been credited in your favour in bid to compensate you on your contract payment since you are next on our inheritance file for the second part of this fiscal Year 2008, Your personal identification is ATM 2900.

Contact the verification Officer Mr Cody Lampard { info_atmdeliveries_diplomaticcourier@post.ro } with the following for proper verification and claim processing:

Full Legal Names…………….
Delivery Address………
Country………………
Occupation……………
Phone Number………….
Fax Number……………
Age………………….
sex………………….

NOTE:-You are also required to send along a means of Identification which can be a scan copy of your  Driver’s License or International Passport for identification on delivery.

Regards
MR CLARK MORGAN

This is just like most of the messages which are being sent out by African crooks. They are not always logical.

You can see that they use various kinds of messages by reading a part of one sentence

contract fund, inheritance or Lottery Wining

Obviously they are trying to catch people who may have been victims before.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr. Hamilton Huang.
Date: 2008/8/25
Subject: Attn: Sir/Madam.
To: undisclosed-recipients

BNP Paribas Bank
10 Harewood Avenue,
London, NW1 6AA,
UK.
Tel: 447-024-034-163.
Fax Number: +447-006-012-637
(Customer Services) Ref: Ref: MX/9420X2/68

Attn: Sir,

RE: AN OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT ON ACCRUED INTEREST OF Ј1,800,000.00 GBP.

This is a notification that your contract fund, inheritance or Lottery Wining, which was deposited in our bank; BNP Paribas Bank Plc., since 1994-2007 has accumulated an interest sum of Ј1,800,000.00 GBP only. Base on the joint agreement signed by the board of trustees of BNP Paribas Bank Plc., the management has mandated us to pay you the accrued interest pending when approvals would be granted on the principal contract/inheritance Sum.

Therefore, you are advised to forward to us immediately
Beneficiary Full Name:
Address: Tel:
Fax: Age/sex:
Occupation:
Bank Details, with Account Number, Swift Code etc.

To this email address: hamiltonxx@sify.com

Your prompt attention and urgent reply to this message is needed. For immediate attention call on the above phone numbers.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Hamilton Huang.

Hamilton Huang, Paribas Bank

The story is somewhat confused as this message talks about contractors and next of kin. Could it be I am the next of kin to a contractor?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MR. GEORGE SMITH <christine.peycelon@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Subject: URGENT PAYMENT NOTIFICATION………
To: undisclosed-recipients

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
TINUBU SQUARE,VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS-NIGERIA

OUR REF: CBN/IRD/CBX/021/067

Attn: Honourable Contractor

RE: IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF YOUR CONTRACT INHERITANCE ON CONTRACT #:MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009.

Following the protest of the International Community, The World Bank, IMF and the instruction by the President and Commander in Chief of the armed forces(UMAU MUSA YARADUA) that all outstanding forieghn debts especially next of kin payment should be released to the benefeciaries forthwith unconditionally.

From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with the Government of Nigeria. Your name and company was discovered as next of kin on the list of the outstanding contractors who have not received their payments. I wish to inform you that your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Also note that from the record in my file, your outstanding contract payment is $10,500 000(Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).
Please re-confirm to me if this is inline with what you have in your record and also re-confirm to me the followings:

1) Your full name.
2) Phone, Fax and Mobile #.
3) Company name, Position and Address.
4) Profession, age,sex and marital status.
5) Any kind of identification

As soon as this information are received, your payment will be made to you in a certified bank draft or wired to your bank account directly from Central bank of Nigeria or any of the asisters bank and a copy of the transfer confirmation informations will be given to you for you to take to your bank and confirm it.

YOURS SINCERELY,

MR GEORGE SMITH,
DIRECTOR FOREIGN REMMITERNCE DIPERTMENT
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA CBN.

A lot of the Africans write their messages in capitals. They don’t seem to haver heard that on the Internet it’s like shouting at someone.